Charles Goodger

Music, memory and meaning in sound come together in the FunSongs Method to create a joyful way of teaching English that aligns closely with what is now known about the brain and language learning. Drawing on James J. Asher’s (2000) pioneering Total Physical Response (TPR) and Noam Chomsky’s (1957) insight that language internalisation develops in a natural physiological order – first understanding then speaking – the approach places melody, movement and narrative at the heart of language learning. Action songs can be so much more than a light-weight interlude at the end of a unit or module. In the...

Charles Goodger combines singing with performing to present new language.